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Into The Silver Ether, a short film by Adjunct Assistant Professor, Vito Adriaensens (Rowlands), will premiere at the 28th Annual Raindance Film Festival in its International Shorts Programme.
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Feature Documentary, Dick Johnson is Dead, co-produced by Associate Professor and Chair of the Creative Producing Concentration, Maureen A. Ryan, and Adjunct Assistant Professor Marilyn Ness, assistant directed by alumnus Michael Toscano ’12, and with alumnus John Wakayama Carey ’14, as Director of Photography, and production managed by Adjunct Assistant Professor Sarah Seulki Oh, will have its premiere on Netflix on October 2, 2020.
Fidelio Films, a production company co-founded by alumni David Figueroa García '13, Mauricio Leiva Cock '13 and Mauro Mueller '13, has signed a development and co-production deal with Stories, the film and TV subsidiary of Spain-based publishing giant Editorial Planeta.
Alumna Ashley Tata ’12 directs Out of the Silence: A Celebration of Music, Program One as a part of the Bard Music Festival.
At this years’ 45th Annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), the Toronto International Film Festival International Critics’ Prize, currently known as the FIPRESCI Prize, was awarded to alumna Déa Kulumbegashvili '18, for her debut feature film, Beginning. In 1992, FIPRESCI launched an award at TIFF to honor the best film by a first-time director, as selected by an appointed jury of eight international film critics.
Unorthodox, a Netflix Original show created by undergraduate Film Studies alumna Anna Winger '93, won an Emmy for Best Directing for a Limited Series, Movie or Drama Special at last night’s 72nd Emmy Awards.
Long time Adjunct Associate Professor Loren-Paul Caplin, will release his new book, Writing Compelling Dialogue for Film and TV: The Art & Craft of Raising Your Voice on Screen, on October 2, 2020.
New America recently announced its class of 2021 National Fellows, among them alumnus Daniel Bergner '89 who has been named a 2021 New Arizona Fellow.
Alumna Angela Tucker ’05 was selected as a recipient of the William Greaves Fund by Firelight Media for her work in documentary filmmaking.
American Thief, co-written by film alumni Missy Hernandez ’17, Miguel Silveira ’15 and Michel Stolnicki ’17, directed by Silveira and produced by Stolnicki, will have its international debut at the Oldenburg International Film Festival.
The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine announced September 10, 2020 that Alumnus Cyrée Jarelle Johnson '19 is among the five winners of the 2020 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowship.
On Sep. 15, the novel The New Wilderness by Writing alumna Diane Cook ’12 joined the 2020 Man Booker Prize shortlist, having made the longlist earlier this summer.